EPISODE · Aug 12, 2024 · 29 MIN
Elin Hilderbrand: Why she’s retiring from writing summer beach reads
from Q with Tom Power
Elin Hilderbrand is a bestselling romance author who’s been writing about summers on Nantucket for the last two decades. Now, after 30 books, she’s closing this chapter with “Swan Song,” her final novel set on the island. Elin joins Tom to share how her experience going to the most prestigious writing school in North America led her to writing beach reads, how she creates a community through fiction, and why she’s now calling it quits — sort of.
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Elin Hilderbrand is a bestselling romance author who’s been writing about summers on Nantucket for the last two decades. Now, after 30 books, she’s closing this chapter with “Swan Song,” her final novel set on the island. Elin joins Tom to share how her experience going to the most prestigious writing school in North America led her to writing beach reads, how she creates a community through fiction, and why she’s now calling it quits — sort of.
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